| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: I was back again, a youngster, in those golden days of old,
When my teeth were wont to chatter and my lips were blue with cold.
The Love of the Game
There is too much of sighing, and weaving
Of pitiful tales of despair.
There is too much of wailing and grieving,
And too much of railing at care.
There is far too much glorification
Of money and pleasure and fame;
But I sing the joy of my station,
And I sing the love of my game.
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: nor own anybody nearer than him. And I don't want to be a lady--
thank you all the same" (here Eppie dropped another curtsy). "I
couldn't give up the folks I've been used to."
Eppie's lips began to tremble a little at the last words. She
retreated to her father's chair again, and held him round the neck:
while Silas, with a subdued sob, put up his hand to grasp hers.
The tears were in Nancy's eyes, but her sympathy with Eppie was,
naturally, divided with distress on her husband's account. She
dared not speak, wondering what was going on in her husband's mind.
Godfrey felt an irritation inevitable to almost all of us when we
encounter an unexpected obstacle. He had been full of his own
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "He is very kind and very generous--too generous. He keeps sending
for more money--hundreds of roubles, I try to prevent him."
"Were you EVER in love?"
"Of course. But it's all gone long ago. It was like being hungry.
Only very fine hungry. Exquisite hungry. . . . And then being
disgusted. . . ."
"He is in love with you."
"What is love?" said Anna. "He is grateful. He is by nature
grateful." She smiled a smile, like the smile of a pale Madonna who
looks down on her bambino.
"And you love nothing?"
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